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1003 Seestrasse, Küsnach-Zürich,
10 March 1912
Dear Professor Freud,
Many thanks for your kindly letter. I haven't the slightest intention of imitating Adler. But often I am empty-headed, especially when all my libido is concentrated on a problem. I shall gather my wits together very soon.
About Pfister: I forgot to mention that he is in a bad way because his position is in jeopardy. He has been too incautious. He is happy enough with his girl, but she is much too young and infantile and still hasn't realized what the situation is; she even wanted to call it off a second time. Pfister is a child himself and needs an intelligent woman. First he married a mother, now it's a daughter. I have told him she is thoroughly infantile; I heard he took it as an encouraging sign. The whole enterprise is decidedly dangerous. However, his libido is in it so it might turn out well. I'm not meddling so long as he doesn't ask me to. His position in the parish is precarious. What would he do if he were expelled? He says he would work with some medical man as a ΨA assistant. With whom? There is no room for him here with us. And what would his young wife or fiancée say about that? Now he is terribly in love and imagines he can't live without the girl. I hope it will be all right in the end. We are very worried about him.